Differential Privacy over Hamming Codes
摘要
We consider the transmission of the outputs of counting queries over a binary symmetric channel (BSC), where Hamming codes are employed as the channel encoder. Since the channel is inherently noisy, this transmission already provides a degree of privacy protection ``for free'', albeit at the cost of reduced utility in the form of decoding errors. A natural question is whether this privacy can be further improved (i) without any additional real-time obfuscation of the data, such as injecting artificial noise prior to transmission, and (ii) without increasing the end-to-end error probability. In this work, we answer this question in the affirmative by deriving an optimal codeword arrangement that strictly improves differential privacy guarantees while incurring no real-time computational overhead and no degradation in utility.
引用
@article{arxiv.2606.27849,
title = {Differential Privacy over Hamming Codes},
author = {Borzoo Rassouli and Morteza Varasteh},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2606.27849},
year = {2026}
}